Our programmes
All TLG programmes are underpinned by a commitment to ensuring that children and families struggling with their emotional and mental wellbeing receive therapeutic, trauma-informed, compassionate support.
TLG Early Intervention
One coach, one child, one hour a week.
All over the UK, children are struggling in school for all kinds of reasons and many families are suffering without hope. Poverty, bereavement, family breakdown, abuse or growing up within the care system can have a devastating impact on a child’s wellbeing, leaving them isolated and anxious.
TLG Early Intervention partners with local churches, equipping everyday Christians to provide one-to-one coaching to children in their local schools, giving their coached child deep-rooted care through listening and talking.
Every week, when a trusted coach meets with a child struggling with their emotional and mental wellbeing, they offer real hope – sustained, trauma-informed, compassionate hope that changes young lives.
TLG Make Lunch
Community, belonging and meals that matter.
Across the UK, 4.3 million children live in poverty, leaving many families struggling with food insecurity, isolation, and mental health challenges. School holidays are especially tough, with children missing out on meals, friendships, and activities.
TLG Make Lunch partners with local churches to provide safe spaces where families enjoy nutritious meals, fun activities, and a sense of belonging. TLG equips churches with volunteer training, safeguarding support, and bespoke trauma-informed resources to help those struggling emotionally. Clubs are then well positioned to respond quickly to emerging crises and connect families with the broader church community and other local support services.
Beyond the holidays, TLG Make Lunch clubs foster lasting connections, ensuring families feel supported year-round. Together, we’re tackling food insecurity and isolation – with community, belonging and meals that matter.
TLG Therapeutic Hubs
The current statistics around children’s mental health are stark. The need for faster access to this kind of support is critical. More than 60,000 children had waited over two years for treatment by the end of March 2025. While waiting for mental health support, 26% of children and young people attempt to take their own lives.
TLG Therapeutic Hubs are church- or school-based spaces providing a safe, welcoming environment where children and young people (ages 4–25) and their families can access professional, therapeutic support. Led by qualified psychotherapists and counsellors, each hub offers one-to-one therapy, group interventions, parent support, and family-focused care.
Using a trauma-informed, relationship-based approach, children build emotional resilience, improve confidence, manage anxiety, and develop healthy coping skills. Support is available through both short-term interventions (up to 12 weeks) and longer-term therapy (up to 36 weeks), with the aim of offering an initial appointment within six weeks of referral.
TLG Coaching Academy and Network
As children and young people across the UK experience unprecedented levels of anxiety, emotional dysregulation and mental health challenges, there is an increasing pressure on those working and volunteering with children and young people. Too often, they are operating without the training and confidence they wish they had.
The TLG Coaching Academy is an accredited programme equipping ministry leaders, volunteers and youth workers to confidently support children and young people using trauma-informed, therapeutic approaches. Built on over 26 years of TLG’s experience, it’s ideal for those new to coaching or looking to strengthen their skills.
TLG’s Coaching Network extends the support of the Coaching Academy so churches and participants can sustain effective ministry practice. It offers supervision, webinars, high-quality resources, best-practice tools, monthly supervision for ministry leaders and ongoing support for children’s and youth leaders, creating opportunities for shared learning, collaboration and encouragement.
Together, the TLG Coaching Academy and Network help churches move from wanting to support the growing complexity of children’s needs within their communities to being equipped and connected enough to do it.
